For eight hours a day, five days a week, every week until the heat death of the universe or the day human beings stop ...

In Old English, the word man was a general word for people. The word for man as in male was wer. Wer really only survives in ...

Politicians have long used the phrase ‘I misspoke’ when backpedaling for verbal inaccuracies or blunders. Now it’s used as a ...

With so many people using cannabis in various forms, references and terms are constantly changing and expanding. However, ...

In the face of campus attacks on “Zionists” and a global backlash against the very ideology of “Zionism,” there have been ...

Dictionary Day on October 16 celebrates the birth of Noah Webster, an American writer who was born in 1758. Webster is best-known for publishing the first dictionary in 1806, which he continued to ...

It’s the most Mexican of curse words, and a phrasal verb whose meanings span the cultural spectrum. You may not like it, but ...

We use words every day. They’re like air. When not speaking, we think, conspire, and hope in internal monologues. Even while ...

The word is not only still relevant today, but it represents something vitally needed for world Jewry at this hour: Jewish ...

Many of us have mantras we repeat to ourselves, or at the very least, various things we say to ourselves to get out of a slump or entice encouragement. From post-it notes with an uplifting ...

To model language on a computer, start by taking every word in the dictionary and making a list of its essential features—how many is up to you, as long as it’s the same for every word.

From various uses of the word 'mate' to a German acronym, our writers look at why managers say the things they say ...